The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1887-11-30

BuRoETTE ON INSOMNIA.
A Few Standard Methods of Courting Ma
ture's Sweet Restorer.

What pleases me, when L am tor-
mented with sleeplessness, is a littlo
health book of my own. in which l have
iotted down a few--a very few--of tho
..infallible remedies for slceplessness
which have been tried in thousands
or perhaps it was millions--of cases,
most of which were in the subscribers
own immediate family, or. at the
farthest, circle of intimate friends, and
had never once failed to effect a per-
manent, and it is needless to say, in
slant cure. All of these cases collect
lively and each one by itself individu-
ally were and was exactly like my own
in cause, duration and operation. The
simplicity of the combined remedy APP
peals at once to human confidence.
Eat nothing within three hours be-
fore retiring
Eat light but substantial luncheon
lust before going to bed. Nature abb
hors a vacuum. (This is one Of the
prescriptions / like.)
Read light literature before going to
bed.
Read nothing after supper. Walk a
mile in the open air just before bed
time.
Go to your room an hour before re-
firing and read until bedtime. Give
up smoking altogether
If you are a smoker, cigar just be-
fure retiring will soothe and tranquil
ize your nerves until you can't keep
awake.
Don't think about sleeping; You
scare away slumber by wooing the
drowsy god.
Resolutely resolve as you lie down
that you will go to sleep, and sleep
will come naturally.
Take warm bath, and go from the
tub into bed.
Take cold sponge bath. jump into
bed, and you'll be asleep before your
head touches the pillow.
Walk slowly about your room half
an hour.
Lie on your right side. with your
cheek on your hand.
Lie on your left side, with your head
TcStlnb on your arm.
Count up to one thousand. q tried
this inhuman bit OF idiocy one night.
came very near falling asleep two or
three times, but was startled wide
awake by suddenly becayaing con-
scious that had lost myScount, and
had to begin over again. This care
kept me awake one whole night, when
! was so sleepy ! could scarcely hold
my eyes open. The friend who gave
me this prescription is net living now.
She was woman, and could not, as
a gentleman. offer her violence. So
dosed box of marshmellows with
death to rats. and sent them to her.)
Drink milk. (This, according to my
experience, is the best prescription in
the lot. 1t will make you sleep better
than all the bromides going, which
are snares and delusions. But milk
diet not only makes you sleep atnight,
but you want to sleep all the next day.
1t makes you intolerably stupid all
the time. 1t is a very pleasant, half
awake feeling, if you have nothing else
to do but to enjoy falling asleep at any
time and in all manner of places, like
Colville In the best told story Of these
times 'Indian Summer but If you
have any work to do it is embarrass.
ing).
So, what is sleepless man WHO
wants to sleep, going to dop If he
eats light luncheon, smokes mild
cigar, reads Bonner an hour, walks q
mile in the air. comes back and walks
another mile about his room, takes
sponge bath, cold, followed by tub
bath. warm. drinks pint Of milk,
Jumps into bed, and lies on both sides,
with his head on one arm and one
hand and counts thousand, it will
be time to get up anyhow, and he can
have few nervous fits during the
day.
1t is fact, however. that even men
who think they suffer from sleepless-
ness do not lie awake half so long as
they imagine they do. When man
says to me: Il did not close my eyes
once all night" ! know he lies. Not
intentionally, of coiSss. rH6 tnAhks ho
was awake all night; the probability
is that he did not get to sleep until
two hours after his regular time, and
it seemed an age to him. Really. ii
isn't often that man lies awake the
whole night through | am not
physician, and can not speak by the
book, but believe that men fib about
their sleepless nights more than any
other i'll to which our weak humani-
ty is heir Now. take your own case;
you remember the last time you lay
awake all night don't youP Yes, ]
see you do. Well, don't you remem-
ber that same night you heard the
clock strike two, and then the next
time you heard it. 1t struck sevenp
YesP l see you do. Well. that's one
of the mysteries about insomnia that
Is difficult to explain. Robert j. Bur
iette, IN Des Motaes Register.